NoSQL Contracts

NoSQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NoSQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NoSQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 226 175
Rank change year-on-year +43 -51 -6
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 549 660 1,407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.28% 1.18% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.52% 6.67% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 449 932
10th Percentile £356 £429 £425
25th Percentile £473 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £690
90th Percentile £825 £801 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £531 £525
% change year-on-year +3.53% +1.19% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 12
10th Percentile £25.71 £68.50 £46.63
25th Percentile £31.68 £71.25 £56.19
Median hourly rate £37.75 £75.00 £64.02
Median % change year-on-year -49.67% +17.15% +5.82%
75th Percentile £47.13 £78.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £59.05 £90.00 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -53.33% +50.00% -17.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

NoSQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NoSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NoSQL.

Daily rate trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NoSQL.

Hourly rate trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +57 501 £600 -4.00% 289
London +62 365 £600 -7.69% 150
Work from Home +21 161 £534 -6.40% 145
UK excluding London +22 139 £550 +3.53% 149
South East +29 45 £625 +19.05% 39
North of England +15 35 £540 -10.00% 50
South West +5 21 £525 -11.02% 8
North West +21 19 £534 -17.85% 37
Midlands +15 16 £423 -25.22% 25
Scotland +18 12 £360 -27.78% 13
Yorkshire +8 12 £625 +4.17% 7
West Midlands +13 11 £400 -38.46% 18
East of England +2 10 £638 +22.60% 12
East Midlands +5 5 £675 +116.00% 7
North East +11 4 - - 6

NoSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 26 (4.74%) Apache
3 21 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.83%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.55%) Confluence
5 8 (1.46%) nginx
6 7 (1.28%) Anypoint
6 7 (1.28%) Jupyter
7 6 (1.09%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.73%) SAS
10 2 (0.36%) CMS
10 2 (0.36%) JBoss
10 2 (0.36%) ThingWorx
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (3.10%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (4.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 231 (42.08%) Azure
2 179 (32.60%) AWS
3 90 (16.39%) Serverless
4 60 (10.93%) GCP
5 55 (10.02%) GitHub
6 47 (8.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 40 (7.29%) Power Platform
8 37 (6.74%) Azure Functions
9 36 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
10 34 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 25 (4.55%) Entra ID
14 24 (4.37%) Amazon S3
15 22 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
15 22 (4.01%) SaaS
16 20 (3.64%) OpenShift
17 17 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
19 14 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) Firewall
2 9 (1.64%) DNS
2 9 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.46%) BGP
3 8 (1.46%) Ethernet VPN
3 8 (1.46%) MPLS
3 8 (1.46%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (1.46%) VPN
4 5 (0.91%) DHCP
4 5 (0.91%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.73%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.73%) Internet
5 4 (0.73%) IPsec
5 4 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.55%) HTTP
6 3 (0.55%) Network Security
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
7 1 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (16.76%) MongoDB
2 89 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (12.39%) Relational Database
4 64 (11.66%) SQL Server
5 52 (9.47%) Metadata
6 43 (7.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 43 (7.83%) Data Vault
7 40 (7.29%) Power BI
8 38 (6.92%) MySQL
9 37 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (6.38%) RDBMS
11 34 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 33 (6.01%) Data Lake
13 29 (5.28%) DynamoDB
13 29 (5.28%) Metadata Repository
14 20 (3.64%) Big Data
14 20 (3.64%) Couchbase
14 20 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (2.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 110 (20.04%) Git
2 58 (10.56%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.19%) GitLab
4 31 (5.65%) JIRA
5 25 (4.55%) TeamCity
6 15 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 14 (2.55%) Selenium
8 13 (2.37%) Mockito
9 12 (2.19%) JUnit
10 11 (2.00%) NUnit
10 11 (2.00%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.82%) Moq
12 9 (1.64%) ERwin
12 9 (1.64%) Maven
12 9 (1.64%) webpack
13 8 (1.46%) Robot Framework
13 8 (1.46%) TestRail
14 7 (1.28%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.28%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 130 (23.68%) Finance
2 97 (17.67%) Social Skills
3 69 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.20%) Banking
5 43 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.28%) Telecoms
7 24 (4.37%) Front Office
7 24 (4.37%) Marketing
8 23 (4.19%) Manufacturing
9 21 (3.83%) Electronics
10 13 (2.37%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.37%) Publishing
11 12 (2.19%) Retail
12 11 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.28%) Legal
13 7 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.09%) Back Office
15 5 (0.91%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 237 (43.17%) Developer
2 104 (18.94%) Architect
3 80 (14.57%) Data Architect
4 70 (12.75%) Senior
5 53 (9.65%) Full Stack Developer
6 39 (7.10%) Data Engineer
7 32 (5.83%) Python Developer
8 28 (5.10%) Senior Developer
9 27 (4.92%) C# Developer
10 26 (4.74%) Azure Developer
10 26 (4.74%) Java Developer
10 26 (4.74%) Software Engineer
11 24 (4.37%) Chief Architect
11 24 (4.37%) Chief Data Architect
11 24 (4.37%) Software Developer
12 22 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
13 18 (3.28%) React Developer
14 16 (2.91%) Analyst
14 16 (2.91%) Full Stack Engineer
14 16 (2.91%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (16.03%) React
2 81 (14.75%) RESTful
3 78 (14.21%) REST
4 74 (13.48%) Node.js
5 71 (12.93%) Kafka
6 64 (11.66%) .NET
7 55 (10.02%) Spring
8 42 (7.65%) JSON
8 42 (7.65%) Spring Boot
9 41 (7.47%) HTML
10 34 (6.19%) .NET Core
11 32 (5.83%) Web Services
12 30 (5.46%) CSS
13 29 (5.28%) RabbitMQ
14 25 (4.55%) ASP.NET
15 24 (4.37%) SOAP
16 21 (3.83%) FastAPI
17 20 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
18 19 (3.46%) WebSockets
18 19 (3.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.47%) Product Ownership
2 35 (6.38%) Reference Data
3 26 (4.74%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.01%) Algorithms
5 20 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 20 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.37%) Derivative
8 11 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.28%) Solar Panel
10 7 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.91%) Blockchain
12 5 (0.91%) Clustering
12 5 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.47%) Linux
2 25 (4.55%) Unix
3 6 (1.09%) Android
3 6 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.91%) VMS
5 4 (0.73%) CentOS
6 3 (0.55%) Windows
7 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (34.24%) Agile
2 180 (32.79%) CI/CD
3 156 (28.42%) Microservices
4 151 (27.50%) DevOps
5 125 (22.77%) Data Modelling
6 95 (17.30%) Test Automation
7 84 (15.30%) Full Stack Development
8 83 (15.12%) Software Engineering
9 75 (13.66%) TDD
10 74 (13.48%) Containerisation
11 71 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
12 66 (12.02%) Unit Testing
13 65 (11.84%) Data Architecture
14 64 (11.66%) Continuous Integration
15 62 (11.29%) ETL
16 57 (10.38%) SDLC
17 55 (10.02%) Analytics
18 54 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
19 53 (9.65%) Data Governance
20 47 (8.56%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 317 (57.74%) SQL
2 190 (34.61%) Python
3 137 (24.95%) Java
4 90 (16.39%) JavaScript
5 69 (12.57%) C#
6 42 (7.65%) TypeScript
7 39 (7.10%) Go
8 30 (5.46%) Scala
9 21 (3.83%) C++
10 18 (3.28%) PowerShell
11 17 (3.10%) T-SQL
12 13 (2.37%) C
12 13 (2.37%) Rust
12 13 (2.37%) Shell Script
13 11 (2.00%) Bash
14 9 (1.64%) Groovy
14 9 (1.64%) PHP
15 6 (1.09%) Ruby
16 4 (0.73%) R
17 2 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 74 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.38%) Degree
4 20 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.36%) OCP
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.18%) CBAP
10 1 (0.18%) CISSP
10 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.19%) GDPR
3 22 (4.01%) QA
4 8 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.28%) ISO 20022
5 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.91%) NIST
8 4 (0.73%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.55%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.36%) WCAG
11 1 (0.18%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (21.31%) Docker
2 24 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.18%) iptables
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (22.59%) Kubernetes
2 45 (8.20%) Terraform
3 30 (5.46%) Ansible
4 28 (5.10%) Grafana
5 12 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.91%) Kibana
6 5 (0.91%) PingFederate
6 5 (0.91%) Puppet
7 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.36%) Ambari
8 2 (0.36%) Oozie
8 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.18%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.18%) logstash
9 1 (0.18%) Rancher
9 1 (0.18%) rkt
9 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 71 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.57%) Oracle
3 39 (7.10%) SAP
4 36 (6.56%) Google
5 25 (4.55%) Informatica
6 23 (4.19%) Sparx
7 19 (3.46%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.91%) Databricks
9 15 (2.73%) Splunk
10 14 (2.55%) OpenAI
11 12 (2.19%) TIBCO
12 8 (1.46%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.46%) Talend
12 8 (1.46%) WSO2
13 7 (1.28%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.09%) CyberSource
15 5 (0.91%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.91%) Okta
15 5 (0.91%) Ping Identity
16 4 (0.73%) Symantec